Смерш. Советская военная контрразведка против разведки Третьего рейха

The abbreviation GUKR "Smersh" of the NPO of the USSR was deciphered simply: Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "Death to Spies" of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. Employees of the Soviet military counterintelligence during the Great Patriotic War were able to neutralize almost all enemy agents, bringing to life the slogan "Death to spies!". Only James Bond managed to "beat" the retired employees of Smersh. At the end of the war, his real colleagues from German intelligence had to surrender to the mercy of the winner and go to the Siberian camps or move to the West, retaining fear and respect for the Soviet military counterintelligence officers for the rest of their lives. What is the secret of the power of "Smersh"? One of the reasons is that during the Great Patriotic War, military counterintelligence officers hunted agents of foreign intelligence services, and did not look for those who criticized the existing system. Another reason is that the "specialists" from the political police, which they were all the years of the existence of the USSR, turned into spy hunters.